Missy Bear 
Seasons III to V:
The Bear returns...

We have arrived in our second Venice. The Venice. Magical Venice. Mercantile Venice. The capital of the Stato da Mar. Capital of the...

I mentioned before that one of my university friends, Teresa, was working briefly in North Italy while we were there, and we’d arranged...

We’d originally planned to have a two-night stop before crossing the Alps, so that we could get some laundry done. But with the great...

Looking north from the Fern Pass, Austria Well, we are on day six of our grand tour to Leros and I’m in bed in the guesthouse looking out...

We were still in Greece in Autumn 2024, when Richard started to talk about driving down to Leros next season. There are always a few...

S5 in Dinkelsbühl After leaving Würzburg, we found the ‘ Romantischen Strasse’, and wended and meandered southwards towards the Alps.  ...

Medieval Aachen - once capital of the Holy Roman Empire The ‘Low Countries’ are well-named; the landscape, as we travelled eastwards...

The Two Venices The First of Two Venices Rather than jetting back to Missy Bear for her fifth season, I had the mad idea to drive there...

After our lovely night in the quiet anchorage on northern Samos, we sailed around to the small marina at Ormos (Marathakampos). The wind...

The time had come to leave Lesvos and to continue our way southwards. The forecast was still looking good for a Monday morning departure,...

We were up early on Friday morning to make use of our hired car.  I needed to call into the marina office before we left, and Richard...

Missy Bear was heading home on the last leg of her spring adventure clockwise around the northern Aegean. We were sailing southwards just...

Lesbos is the third largest island in Greece (after Crete and Evia), and the eighth largest in the Mediterranean; there’s a good pub-quiz...

It was fun in Sigri to catch up with Ron, Matty, and their two Jack Russells, Captain Jack, and Sammy the Sailor. After a visit to the...

Imagine, if you will, being five years old. Your father and older brother are still locked up in an internment camp. Your house has been...

Today, the world passes Lemnos by. The Marine Traffic app shows how the cargo vessels and container ships spewing from the Dardanelles,...

I left you last time when we had just moored on Myrina town quay. Myrina is definitely a town and not a village. There is a new town quay...

Or "Towards the Eastern Sporades" When anyone mentions the ‘Sporades’, most people, like me, think of the islands of Skiathos and...

Our original intention had to be to explore anchorages around the first and second fingers of Khalkidhiki. The third finger, Mount Athos,...

It was my first time to Thessaloniki. But my father, Walter, reminded me that I was not the first in our family to have been there! My...